Revolver found in bank locker

For seven years,the authorities of Allahabad Bank in Mahim have been wondering why a locker in their safe deposit vault was neither opened nor emptied of its content. Despite several attempts by the bank authorities,they could not reach the owner of the locker. According to them,he never visited the bank also. Finally on Wednesday,they opened the locker to find an England manufactured revolver,with 133 rounds of different bore and six firearm licences belonging to different people. They immediately handed over the weapon to the Mahim police,who arrested one Resham Prabhakar Thakur (46) under the Arms Act.

“While Thakur claims that he would constantly travel and train people in shooting,during preliminary investigation the police found that Thakur was notorious for cheating people by promising guns to them in exchange ofa lumpsum amount.

“He had cases of cheating registered against him at Dadar,Mahim,Meghwadi,D B Marg and Shahunagar from 1999,” said Assistant Police Inspector,Mohan Jadhav.